附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index.
Immigrant transnationalism between two empires -- I: Multiple beginnings -- Mercantilists, colonialists, and laborers: heterogeneous origins of Japanese America -- II: Convergences and divergences -- Re-forming the immigrant masses: the transnational construction of a moral citizenry -- Zaibei doho: racial exclusion and the making of an American minority -- III: Pioneers and successors -- "Pioneers of Japanese development": history making and racial identity -- The problem of generation: preparing the nisei for the future -- Wages of immigrant internationalism: nisei in the ancestral land -- IV: Complexities of immigrant nationalism -- Helping Japan, helping ourselves: the meaning of issei patriotism -- Ethnic nationalism and racial struggle: interethnic relations in the California delta -- Wartime racisms, state nationalisms, and the collapse of immigrant transnationalism.
摘要:'Between Two Empires' probes the complexities of prewar Japanese American community to show how Japanese in America occupied an in-between space between American nationality & Japanese racial identity.
